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K. Sreekanth Reddy

Simulation of ZVS H-Bridge Inverter Using Soft

Switching Boost Converter
K. Sreekanth Reddy

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a two stage zero-voltageswitching H-Bridge inverter using soft switching boost
converter. The conventional H-Bridge inverter generates
switching losses at turn on and off. So that, the efficiency is
reduced. The proposed inverter operates ZVS using an
auxiliary switch and resonant circuit to improve the efficiency
of inverter. DC-DC converter stages reduce not only switching
loss but also the capacity and size of the passive device. DC-AC
inverter stage supplies load with energy through the ZVS
operation of 4 switches. The operating mode analysis is
presented in detail. We present the inverter topology, principle
of operation and simulation results obtained from the
MATLAB Software.

II.

BASIC BLOCK DIAGRAM

Fig. 1 shows the basic block diagram of ZVS HBridge inverter. This is a two stage converter that is DC-DC
converter stage and DC-AC stage. In this the resonant
network consists of a resonant inductor, two resonant
capacitors, two diodes and an auxiliary switch. It makes
partial resonant path for main switch perform soft switching
at zero voltage. Moreover, the auxiliary switch also achieves
soft switching by resonant circuit. In the H-Bridge inverter,
the inverter is capable of ZVS switching and that can reduce
switching loss and size of the passive device.

Keywords- Boost converter, Soft switching, Resonant

converter, H-Bridge inverter.
I.
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, trends of the power electronics system are
toward smaller size, lighter weight and higher efficiency.
So, it is necessary to evaluate their switching frequency of
operation. However, as known, the switching losses of
semiconductor devices are proportional to switching
frequency [1]. In this way to minimize or even to eliminate
the switching losses, the soft commutation techniques are
needed for improving the efficiency of the converters. When
the switching devices like MOSFET or IGBT perform hard
switching, during turn on and off process, the power device
has to withstand high voltage and current simultaneously
resulting in high switching loss and stress. Also according to
that, the whole system efficiency goes down. So, to solve
this problem, soft switching converters provide an effective
solution to suppress electromagnetic interference and have
been applied to DC-DC, AC-DC and DC-AC [2]. The
disadvantages of hard switching are; expensive, heavy
weight and low efficiency. Therefore in this, the soft
Switching is performing in both converter stage and inverter
stage.
However in applications with high voltage (above
500v) and high values of rms currents through the
Semiconductor devices, Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistors
(IGBTs) are preferred as the power switches, because they
present lower conduction losses than MOSFETs[3].
Nevertheless, the turn- off losses compose the major part of
the total switching losses in IGBTs. This fact makes the
zero-current-transition (ZCT) the most effective one for
IGBTs. In order to verify validity of proposed inverter, it is
simulated using MATLAB software.

K. Sreekanth Reddy is working as Assistant Professor, School of

Electronics & Electrical Engineering, LPU, Punjab, India. Corresponding
author e-mail: kondreddy.sri@gmail.com

Fig. 1 Basic Block Diagram

III.

SOFT SWITCHING BOOST CONVERTER

Fig. 2 shows the proposed soft switching inverter

capable of ZVS switching and that can reduce switching
loss and size of passive device. Soft switching boost
converter with resonance as an inverter in order to gain high
stable density and high efficiency. Resonance type soft
switching DC-DC converter can reduce switching loss than
hard switching DC-DC converter, and can reduce scale of
the passive elements (inductor, capacitor).

2 proposed ZVS H-bridge inverter

Fig.

.
First stage is soft switching boost converter and in
second stage, there is conventional H-bridge inverter. The
switching loss can be reduced switching at zero current and
zero voltage made by the resonance between inductor Lr and
capacitors Cr1, Cr2.

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IV.
Mode 1 (t0

EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT ANALYSIS

t1 )

In this mode the main switch S1 is turned on with

zero-current switching (ZCS) and Only S3, S6 are turned off
among 4 switches of inverter.

Fromtheequivalent circuit
di
Vin Vout VL1 L1 L1
dt
Vin Vout
diL1
.dt
L1
Integrating onboth sides,

iL1 iL1 (t0 )

1
(Vout Vin ).t
L1

diLr
Vout
dt
1
iLr
.Vout .t
Lr
vcr1 (t ) Vout

(1)

Lr .

vcr 2

(2)
(3)

(4)

The main inductor current decreases linearly and when the

resonant inductor current iLr is equal to the main inductor
current, the switch S2 is turned off, at that time mode1 is
finished. The main and resonant inductor Currents of this
mode are presented as (1) and (2). The voltages of resonant
capacitor Cr1andCr2 are given by (3) and (4).

Fig. 3 Equivalent circuits of half switching mode

Mode 2 (t1

t2 ) This mode starts at the time that

resonant switch S2 is turned off.

V cr1

d iLr
Lr
0
dt
d v cr1
d
Lr .
c r1.
dt
dt

V cr1
V cr1
V cr1

L r c r1

d 2 v cr1
dt2
D

V Lr

D 122

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dt

1
v cr1
L r c r1

1
L r c r1

v cr1

0
0

1
L r c r1

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VL =Vin

1
Lr cr1

D12

Vcr1

A cos

Vcr1

A cos

1
1
t B
t
Lr cr1
Lr cr1
t B sin

r1

di L1
=Vin
dt
di L1 1
= Vin
dt L1
Integrating on both side
L1.

1
Lr cr1

r1

r1

By applying initial conditions

t 0; Vcr1 Vout

B cos

1
cr1

icr1(0

iout
cr

iout
cr

cr1

t.

r1

dvcr1
dt

V1

r1

iLr (t) ILrmax

vcr2(t) 0

Mode 4

r1

iout
B
cr r1

By substituting these values in Vcr 1

vcr1(t) Vout cos

iLr (t) (I Lmin
iL1 (t) I L1min

r1

t Iout Zr1 sin

(5)

r1

V
I Lout ) Iout cos r1t out sin
Zr1

(7)

iL1(t) IL1(t3)

tr1

(9)

Zr1

Lr
Cr1

(10)

resonant capacitor C r 1 is discharged through the resonant

path C r 1

Lr .At the end of this mode the resonant

capacitor C r 1 is equal to zero. The corresponding equations

are given by (5)-(8)

Mode 3 (t2

t t3 )

(t3

(14)

t t4 )

r2

vcr2 (t) Zr2.ILr(t3).sin

t (6)

r1

(8)

LrCr1
2
The resonant impedance is

(13)

iLr (t) ILr(t3) cos

vcr 2 (t) 0

The resonant period is

(12)

At mode 3, the current flow into the anti-parallel-diodes of

switches S3, S4, S5 and S6 under zero voltage. At that time,
the turn-on signal is given to the two switches S3, S6 of Hbridge inverter. Needless to say, the two switches S4, S5 are
turned on already in advance for the currents flow through
the 4 switches in this mode.

Lr
cr1

iout

(11)

vcr1(t) 0

then

cr 1(0 )

Vin
t
L1

iL1(t) IL1(t2)

At the beginning of this mode, the resonant capacitor Cr1

has been discharged fully; the resonant capacitor voltage
becomes zero. Then the diodes D1 and D2 are turned on, also
the anti-parallel-diodes of the H-Bridge inverter s switches
S3, S4, S5 and S6 are turned on. At that time the PWM signal
of main switch is removed with zero-voltage-condition. In
this interval, the main inductor current is shown as (11).

vcr1(t) 0

Vin
.t
L1

r2

The resonant periodis

(15)

(16)

(17)
(18)

LC
r r2
2
The resonant impedanceis

(19)

Zr2

(20)

tr2

Lr
Cr2

Therefore the 4 switches of H-bridge inverter can be turned

on in zero-voltage-condition. Also due to the on state of the
all inverter switches, freewheeling current flows through the
inverter stage. In this section, resonant inductor Lr and
resonant capacitor Cr2 start resonance. When the current of
Lr is equal to zero, the resonant inductor Lr has no energy
and this mode is finished. The corresponding equations are
given by (15)-(18)
Mode 5 (t4

t t5 )

In mode 4, the freewheeling current flows via inverter

stage and the current of Lr becomes zero. This means the
total energy of resonant inductor Lr is transferred to resonant
capacitor Cr2.

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iL1(t) IL1(t4 )

Vin
.t
L1

vcr2 (t) Zr2.ILr(t3).cos

iLr (t)

ILr(t3).sin

vcr1(t) 0

tr2

Zr2

source, main inductor and resonant inductor. The main and

resonant inductor current equations are given by (35) and
(36).

(21)
t

r2

r2

(22)

(23)

(24)

(25)

LC
r r2
Lr
Cr2

t t6 )

In mode 6, the inductor current iLr flows continuously

through the anti-parallel-diode of switch S1. The switches of
H-bridge inverter have zero-voltage condition, therefore the
switches S4, S5 can be turned off in zero-voltage-condition
(ZVC). At the end of mode 6, the freewheeling current is
stopped due to the turn off signals of inverter switches. The
corresponding equations are given by (27)-(30).

(27)

vcr1(t) 0

(29)

iLr (t) ILr min

vcr 2 (t) 0

Mode 7 (t6

iLr (t) ILr(t7)

(36)

vcr2(t) 0

(26)

V
iL1(t) IL1(t5 ) in .t
L1

(35)

vcr1(t) Vout

At the same time Cr2 has been fully charged by the energy
transferred from Lr. After that, the resonant capacitor Cr2
supplies the energy to the Lr oppositely in mode 5. The
resonant path is Composed of D2-Cr2-Lr. When the capacitor
voltage Vcr2 is equal to zero, this mode is finished. The
related equations are represented as (21) ~ (24), the resonant
period and impedance equations are same to (19) and (20).
Mode 6 (t5

1
iL1(t) IL1max- (Vout -Vin).t
L1

(28)

Mode 9 (t8

1
Vout .t
Lr

(37)

(38)

t t9 )

This mode begins after the resonant inductor Lr discharged

the energy totally. On the first half of the mode 9, the main
inductor current iL1 is decreased linearly and transferred the
energy to the DC-link capacitor and the load. But on the
second half of the mode 9, the DC-link capacitor is
discharged. Because of that, the load current iout can be
constant despite decreasing of the main inductor current.
The corresponding equations are

iL1(t)
iLr (t)

1
IL1(t8) - (Vout -Vin ).t
L1

vcr1(t) Vout
vcr2 (t) 0

(39)
(40)

(41)

(42)

Among of the 18 modes in one cycle, we have

analyzed only 9 modes in half cycle.

(30)

t t7 )

When the PWM signal of H-bridge inverter switches S4,

S5 are stopped, this mode begins. The main inductor
transfers the energy to the load during mode 7. The resonant
capacitor Cr1 is charged by resonance with resonant inductor
Lr. When the resonant capacitor Cr1 is charged fully, this
mode is finished. The equations related with mode 7 are as
following.

V.
SIMULATION RESULTS
For this, the input voltage is 200V, the converter
switching frequency is 30 kHz and the inverter switching
frequency is 15 kHz

iLr (t) (IL1max Iout ) (Iout IL1max ILrmin).cos r1t (31)

vcr1(t)

(Iout IL1max ILrmin ).Zr1.sin r1t

iL1(t) IL1max
vcr2(t) 0

Mode 8 (t7

t t8 )

(32)

(33)

(34)

After the resonant capacitor Cr1 is charged fully, this mode

starts. In this mode, the DC-link capacitor is charged and the
resonant inductor Lr is completely discharged. Then the
resonant Inductor current iLr becomes zero at the end of this
section. Also, the load is supplied the energy from input
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Fig. 6 The voltage and the current waveforms of switch S2

The Fig. 6 shows waveforms of auxiliary switch

current and voltage when the switch is turned on and off.
The Fig. 7 shows the voltage and current waveforms of the
H-bridge inverter switch S3 adapted to the proposed boost
converter at turns on and off.

Fig. 4 PWM signals and waveforms of the capacitors voltage,

of resonant inductor and main inductor.

currents

In order to verify the validity of proposed system,

it is simulated using the MATLAB / SIMULINK
Software.Vg1,Vg2,Vg3 and Vg4 are the switch PWM signals,
iL1 and iLr are main inductor current and resonant inductor
current and Vcr1, and Vcr2 are the voltages of resonant
capacitors respectively in figure 4

Fig. 7 The voltage and the current waveforms of switch S3

Fig. 5 The voltage and the current waveforms of switch S1

and voltage waveforms at the switching points. Before the

resonant switch S2 and H-Bridge inverter switches S3, S4, S5
and S6 turns on, the anti-parallel diodes are turned on.
Therefore, the switches S3, S4, S5 and S6 are capable of ZVS.
Furthermore, when the resonant switch S2 is turned off, the
resonant capacitor Cr make the switch S2 can be turned off in
ZVS.
.

Fig. 8 The voltage and the current waveforms of switch S5

The Fig.8 shows the voltage and current waveforms

of the H-bridge inverter switch S5 adapted to the proposed
boost converter at turns on and off.
The switching loss of the power semiconductor
devices can be calculated by using the equation

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tc ( on )

1
.V0 .I 0 .Fs . tc ( on ) tc ( off )
2
circuit turn on time,

Fs

switching frequency,

Switching loss

tc ( off ) circuit turn off time,

V0
I0

output voltage,

output current

The switching loss of the main switch is 0.82W and

the auxiliary switch is 0.21W.
IV. CONCLUSION
In this paper, a new soft switching boost converter is
proposed using auxiliary switch and resonant circuit.
Auxiliary switch performs soft switching in zero voltage by
resonant capacitor and inductor, and the Switches of the HBridge inverter are capable of ZVS using resonant inductor
or capacitor or anti-parallel-diodes of the switches. The
proposed system is analyzed in detail mathematically, the
switching losses are very less and its validity has been
confirmed through the simulation.
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